Jeff Weinstein says: "The dinnerware one chooses or uses is a telling stage for the eater as much as for what is eaten. Even the simplest of daily objects must be imagined, fashioned, produced, and marketed: in other words, designed. One may think a dinner plate is a blank slate, but under sympathetic scrutiny it can provide as much social history as -- and probably more pleasure than -- many an academic text." We’ll see. mocad.org